Mebo giant flying squirrel
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Sciuridae
Genus: Petaurista
Species:
P. siangensis
Binomial name
Petaurista siangensis
Choudhury, 2013

The Mebo giant flying squirrel (Petaurista siangensis) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It was first described in 2013 from the East Himalayan forests of Upper Siang District, Arunachal Pradesh in India.[1]

It is one of the three recently discovered flying squirrel species of Arunachal Pradesh, along with the Mishmi giant flying squirrel and Mechuka giant flying squirrel.[2][3][4]

References

  1. ^ J.L. Koprowski, E.A. Goldstein, K.R. Bennett, C. Pereira Mendes: Mebo Giant Flying Squirrel Petaurista mishmiensis. In: Don E. Wilson, T.E. Lacher Jr., Russell A. Mittermeier (Hrsg.): Handbook of the Mammals of the World: Lagomorphs and Rodents 1. (HMW, Band 6) Lynx Edicions, Barcelona 2016, ISBN 978-84-941892-3-4, S. 772.
  2. ^ Choudhury, A.U. (2007). "A new flying squirrel of the genus Petaurista Link from Arunachal Pradesh in north-east India". Newsletter and Journal of the Rhino Foundation for Nat. In NE India. 7: 26–32.
  3. ^ Choudhury, A.U. (2009). "One more new flying squirrel of the genus Petaurista Link, 1795 from Arunachal Pradesh in northeast India". Newsletter and Journal of the Rhino Foundation for Nat. In NE India. 8: 26–34.
  4. ^ Choudhury, A.U. (2013). "Descriptions of a new species of giant flying squirrel of genus Petaurista Link, 1795 from Siang basin, Arunachal Pradesh in North East India". Newsletter and Journal of the Rhino Foundation for Nat. In NE India. 9: 30–38.


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